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Methodist
College
Vol. 21 No.2
Fayetteville, N. C.
March 1980
Foundation Campaign 1980
Running Ahead of 1979
Pledge totals for the Methodist
College 1980 Loyalty Campaign are
running 5% ahead of the 1979 campaign totals according to Dr. Charles
Speegle, campaign coordinator.
"The total amount received thus
far is $92,911," stated Dr. Speegle.
"This
figure
reflects
$31,933
restricted funds and $60,970 in
unrestricted funds."
The campaign goal is $120,000 in
unrestricted giving to meet the community pledge for annual support of
Methodist College.
Over 20% of the pledge cards are
in with an average gift of $150 tallied.
Methodist
College
Foundation
president Marie Stewart presided at
the kick-off breakfast Tuesday, Feb.
19, for the 150 members of the
Developmental Team who canvassed
Fayetteville business for financial
contributions for the college.
Monsanto Corporation presented
Methodist College president Richard
Pearce with a check for $5,000 at the
breakfast for unrestricted use.
Over
150 members
of the
Methodist
College Developmental
Team gathered for the meeting at
Methodist College to receive last
minute instructions before beginning
their
one-day
blitz
of Fayetteville/Cumberland
County
businesses.
The Developmental Team Plan,
designed by Dr. Charles Speegle,
enlists
prominent
Fayetteville
business and professional people to
give one day a year to solicit financial
support for Methodist College from
the Fayetteville community.
"Methodist College is so much a
part of the Fayetteville family now
that we can hardly remember what
we did when the college wasn't
here," states Mrs. Stewart.
"Methodist
College Loyalty Day
gives members of the community the
opportunity to respond to the commitment made when Methodist College was built."
"The college needs more than our
applause for jobs well done. Our college needs our continued financial
support to adjust to the spiraling inflation rate."
A/ Rummans of Sears Foundation
presents Dr. Richard Pearce with a
contribution for Methodist Co/lege
in conjunction
with Methodist
College Loyalty Day held Tuesday,
February 19, 1980.
Methodist College Completes
Annual Spring Tour
The Methodist College Chorus left
under post-blizzard condition to present a concert tour of sacred music at
selected churches North Carolina and
South Carolina during the college's
spring break, March 5-9. Under the
direction of Alan M. Porter, assistant
professor of Music at Methodist College, the Chorus conducted its fifteenth annual tour. This performing
group is well known for its high quality music and spirited rendition of a
variety of musical styles. The Chorus
has sung regularly for church, civic
clubs, military installations,
conferences and rallies in eastern North
Carolina. Their tours have taken them
as far north as Manchester, Conn.,
and on three trips to Florida.
The Methodist College Chorus is a
select group of 35 students from
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia, with one student from
Japan. They are chosen by audition
for their personality, moral character
and leadership qualities, as well as for
their musical talent. Less than one
half the group are music majors--the
remainder are concentrating in eight
of the nineteen major fields offered
by the college.
Five student officers manage the
chorus affairs. Jon Strother, a senior
Religion major from Sanford, N.C.,
serves as president of the Methodist
Chorus. John Harris, vice-president,
is a junior Business major from Boonville, N.C. Treasurer is Tammy
Hightower, a junior Music major from
Mebane, N.C.
United Methodist Women
Establish Archives
At Methodist
The United Methodist Women of
the North Carolina Conference have
established a permanent archive for
historical documents
relating the
activities of their organization
at
Methodist College.
Evelyn
Ballance
of Raeford,
historical
chairman
of United
Methodist
Women,
placed
all
documents in a special display area
located in Davis Memorial Library on
the Methodist College campus.
.~ "It was important to me to complete this task before going out of office," stated Ms. Ballance. Her collection contains articles of history,
files, photographs and journals dating
back to 1878 which will now be
available for viewing through the
Methodist College librarian ..
Ruth Cade, past president of tl:le
United Methodist Women and a resident of Fayetteville, reiterated the
need for a central place to keep
records for future generations.
Cavano's Oedipus Receives Ovation
Sophocles' IOedipus Rex' Plays To Packed Houses
Methodist College theatre students
presented the classic Greek drama
Oedipus Rex to a packed house on
Thursday and Friday evenings, February 21 and 22, in Reeves Auditorium.
Jeff Cavano, senior from Fayetteville, N.C., was cast in the title role
as Oedipus. Cavano, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Arthur T. Cavano, Jr., has starred in previous Methodist College
productions as Yellow Feather in
"Little Mary Sunshine," as Chaunticleer in "Canterbury Tales," and as
Marc Anthony, Shylock and Petrucio
in "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." A
graduate of Terry Sanford Senior
High School, Cavano is an English
major scheduled for May graduation
from Methodist.
Director
of theatre arts, Jack
Peyrouse, directed the Fayetteville
production of Sophocles' Oedipus
Rex. Daniel Serrano of Spring Lake
served as assistant director.
The large turnout for "Oedipus
Rex" was exciting to Peyrouse.
"Reeves Auditorium is both a bain
and a blessing sometimes. Trying to
fill the 1120 seats is challenging, to
say the least, but playing to a halffilled auditorium is frustrating," says
Peyrouse.
"That's why see4ng a full house is
unbelievably rewarding!"
Full houses are not accidental,
however. Dr. Peyrouse set about to
both inform and enthuse the public
about Greek tragedy in general and
Oedipus Rex specifically. TraveJling
to regional and area high schools,
Peyrouse lectured extensively on
classical Greek drama. The results?
"Overwhelming!"
says Peyrouse.
"The students were anxious to see
the staging and lighting processes for
authentic Greek tragedy. ParticularlIy, I was pleased with their response
to the cast. Cavano received a standing ovation."
While a steady diet of classical
Greek drama doesn't
seem to
threaten the modern theatre, Neil
Simon had to step aside for a little
while in February to let Sophocles'
have a triumphant hour.
Other cast members for Oedipus
Rex included Jeneal Whorton of New
Bern as Jokasta; Jimmy Vestal of
East Bend, N.C. as Creon; Mark
Mooney of Baltimore, Maryland as
Teiresias; Tanya McClain of Fayetteville as the Priestess, Dave Perry
of Fredericksburg, Virginia as the
Corinthian Shepherd; Angel Lopez of
Fayetteville as the Theban Servant;
Clifford Wells of Fayetteville as the
palace guard; Laura Hales of Fayetteville as Choregus; Cathy Clayton of
Fayetteville as Antigone; and Scotti
Sykes of Fayetteville as Ismene.
Additional cast members included
Champagne Lister of Elizabeth City,
Jay Reeves of Clinton, Donald Duff
of Mooresville, Deborah Smith of
Fuquay-Varina, Maggie Rucker of
Red Springs,
Elois Gause. of
Shallotte, Kathy Erranton of Sanford,
and Karen Carter,
Karl-Michael
Kroos,
Jennifer
Turney,
Kathy
Southerland,
Alice Pearce, Cindy
McCall, Eric Hyde, David Smith,
Nolan Hyde, Becky and Denis
Phalan, James Green, Jamie Sykes,
Sylvia Tartt, Mary Pekarski, and Ted
Davies, all of Fayetteville.
"Oedipus Rex" played to a full house with original staging for Greek theatre In
Reeves Auditorium.
Summer Camps Expanded
For Methodist Campus
Methodist College has expanded
its summer camps program
to
include
13 day camps
during
June and July, 1980. Fayetteville
youth will have a choice of beginning,
intermediate and advanced camps in
tennis and baseball as well as
specialized
camps in volleyball,
basketball, golf, soccer, softball and
all sports.
Methodist College opens its summer day camps June 16-20, according to Gene Clayton, athletic director and summer coordinator. During
this week camps will be offered in
beginning and int~rmediate tennis,
girls' volleyball, boys' baseball and
coed mini-basketball.
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The following week, June 23-27,
camps will be held in golf, boys' allsports, girls' all sports and girls'
basketball. Coed advanced tennis
and boys' basketball will be held July
7-11. The Methodist summer camps
program conclude with coed mini-
soccer, girls' softball and advanced
boys' baseball for July 14-18.
All camps will be conducted by
Methodist College coaching personnel and on the Methodist College
campus. Gene Clayton will direct the
golf camp and Joe Miller, basketball
coach at Methodist, will direct boys'
basketball and mini-basketball day
camps.
Mason Sykes will direct the majority of summer offerings including
boys' and girls' all-sports camps, all
tennis camps and the mini-soccer
camp. Sykes is soccer coach and
men's tennis coach at Methodist.
Laura Ferrell heads the volleyball,
softball and girls basketball camps
this summer. Ferrell in her first year of
collegiate coaching has won state
championships
in volleyball
and
basketball. She also coaches softball
at Methodist. Tom Austin, baseball
coach, will direct baseball day camps.
Austin also coaches cross country at
Methodist.
Campus News
Dr. Knott Named
To National Post
Dr. Garland Knott, professor of religion
at Methodist College, has been elected
secretary-treasurer
of the United
Methodist Association of Professors of
Religious Education.
The association boasts 100 chapters in
colleges and seminaries across the United
States and will hold its annual convention
in August at Estes Park, Colorado.
Dr. Knott has been at Methodist for 16
years and has authored
numerous
publications for use in religious education
nationwide.
A graduate of Mississippi State University, Dr. Knott holds advanced degrees
from both Emory University and Boston
University.
Southern Theatre
Magazine Features
Peyrouse Article
The fall issue of SOUTHERN THEATRE
MAGAZINE, journal of the Southeastern
Theatre Conference, features an article by
local dramatist Jack Peyrouse.
"Turn-of-the-Century
Touring Theatre
in Southern Appalachia"
describes the
contributions
of Oliver Taylor to the
development of theatre in the South during the early 1900's. According to Dr.
Peyrouse, Taylor toured Virginia, West
Virginia, Georgia, N.C., S.C. and Tennessee offering theatre to remote parts of
the mountain regions.
Dr. Peyrouse is director of theatre arts
at Methodist College, a position he has
held since 1977. During his tenure at
Methodist, Dr. Peyrouse has also coordinated the Senior Adults Theatre under
the auspices of the Grassroots Funding of
the Arts Council. He has I;>een active in
local theatre productions, most recently
the Fort Bragg Playhouse production of A
Man For All Seasons.
Scholarship Awarded
To Honor Dr. Ott
United Methodist Women at St. Andrews UMC in Fayetteville have awarded
the Charles Ott Scholarship to Lora Jane
Pyle, freshman at Methodist College.
The scholarship was established to
honor the late Dr. Charles Ott, first faculty
member at Methodist College, who was
an active member of the St. Andrews
Church.
Ms. Pyle is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Pyle of Fayetteville and a
graduate of Pine Forest Senior High. Active in Methodist Youth groups and the
St. Andrews Choir, Ms. Pyle performed
with the Pine Forest Chorus.
East-West Foundation Selects
Methodist for Third Summer
Methodist College has again been
selected
to host the exchange
students of foreign nations in a
7-week session this summer, under
the auspices of the East-West Foundation of Atlanta and Tokyo.
Over,180 Japanese students attended the 1979 East-West Foundation summer orientation last year on
the Methodist campus, according to
Dr. Ken Nishimura, director of the
East-West Foundation.
"We are returning to Fayetteville
and to Methodist College because of
the hospitality and warmth of the
people in your community,," said Dr.
Nishimura.
"You always create an atmosphere
of welcome
for our Japanese
students that help them make the
transition of being a foreign visitor in
a strange country with greater ease."
Dr. Nishimura stated that the success of the previous years' program
was a strong factor in the decision of
the East-West Foundation to return.
An expanded program will bring
not only Japanese students to the
Methodist campus for the summer
but also Korean and Chinese students. Approximately
150 students
are expected to arrive at Methodist in early July and to stay through
August 21. These are students
who will be attending American
Accreditation Comes
Early With Plaudits
To Financial Turn-Around
Methodist
College received its
10-year reaccreditation
from the
prestigious Southern Association of
College and Universities one year early, according to Dr. Richard Pearce,
president of Methodist.
"Although we were not scheduled
to submit reaccreditation self-study
until 1980, the college staff felt that
we were prepared at this point to
qualify for approval,"
says Dr.
Pearce.
Reaccreditation efforts were coordinated by Dr. Samuel J. Womack,
former academic dean at Methodist,
prior to his return to the classroom in
September, 1979. According to the
current academic dean, Dr. Fred G.
Clark, the reaccreditation committee
was "most complimentary of the
financial turn-around the college has
made and the performance
of
Methodist College graduates in professional fields."
The Southern Association
Accreditation of Methodist College is
now valid through 1989.
colleges and univerSities
in the
fall. The summer session seeks to
offer them a cultural and language
bridge from their homeland to the
college campus here. Courses will be
given as well as other academic introductions to courses they will see in
the fall.
In addition to the classroom instruction provided, the students will
receive opportunities to assimilate
American lifestyle through visits to
museums, shopping malls, theatre,
zoos and other points of interest.
Host families are being solicited for
providing another opporunity for the
Japanese students to see American
family life first-hand.
All students will be house in the
Methodist College dormitories.
Monsanto, Sears,
WECT- TV Lead
Early 1980 has been "most profitable" for Methodist College, according to Dr. Richard Pearce, college
president.
The Monsanto Corporation and the
Monsanto Fund Board of Directors
has selected Methodist College to
participate in its three-year Rotational
Grant Program.
According
to Mrs.
Lois B.
Johnson, Grants Administrator for
Monsanto, this program includes an
unrestricted grant totaling $15,000 for
the academic years 1979-80, 1980-81,
and 1981-82.
Dr. Richard Pearce president of
Methodist College, viewed the selection of Methodist as a vote of s~pport
for the work the colleqe is doinq.
Over $14,000 in cash and properties were received at Methodist College during the months of December
and January. Gifts from the Mary
Duke Biddle Foundation and a college trustee completed payments for
a new organ for Reeves Auditorium,
while a deed and contract gift totaled
over $80,000. A home appraised at
$25,000 was also given to the college.
These gifts, coupled with announced contributions
of WECT-TV of
Wilmington
and Sears-Roebuck
Foundation
recently,
place the
Methodist College Foundation considerably ahead in their goal for 1980.
Methodist College is one of 39
privately supported
colleges and
universities in North Carolina selected
to receive grants from the SearsRoebuck Foundation totaling more
than $49,381.
According to A. E. Rummans,
Methodist College will receive grants
totaling $700.
Sports Scene
Lady Monarchs Win State Title
Methodif-t College Women just
keep on winning,
capturing
the
NCAIAW Division III State basketball
championship and securing a berth in
the Regionals in Maryville, Tennessee.
This marks the second state championship for the Lady Monarchs this
year, the first being the NCAIAW
State volleyball title in November.
Rookie coach Laura Ferrell has led
both teams to state titles in her first
year out of Campbell University.
"Methodist
is full of potential,"
says Ferrell. "I'm just taking advantage of it."
"These girls are superior team
players and strong in fundamentals.
Attitude is a real strength."
The Monarchs
defeated UNCGreensboro to cap the NCAIAW title,
after losing to the Spartans twice in
regular season.
"1 think we're too good a team to
beat three times," Coach Ferrell told
her girls before the game. Her words
prove prophetic.
Ferrell's
Monarchs
stand 14-7
overall and approach the AIAW
Region II championship
with enthusiasm. The top eight teams for
Kentucky,
N.C., S.C., Tennessee
and Virginia will vie on March 6 - 8 for
the right to advance to the AIAW National Championship slated for Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington.
.Baseball Looking Good
Methodist College baseball prospects are looking good as the opening of the 1980 season approaches
Exhibition games with UNC-Chapel
Hill and the MC Alumni team have
shown a strong and healthy pitching
staff for Coach Tom Austin's Monarchs. Methodist defeated the alumni
19-3 and tied the Tarheels 4-4.
Two lettermen return from last
year's 14-14-1 squad and add depth
to the starting rotation. Butch Bailey,
a senior from Clayton, led the team in
saves last season and had an ERA of
1.85 Sophomore Terry Tolbert, a
native of Dublin, Va., led the team in
innings pitched with 53 1/3 while
recording a 3-4 record. His ERA was
3.21.
Coach Tom Austin stated that the
two will be called upon to be the
leaders and to improve last year's
stats.
Two seniors, Ronnie Reece and
Mike Stinson are also listed on the
staff. Reece, a right-hander from St.
Pauls, will be trying to make a comeback from leg injury sustained playing softball two summers ago. He
played varsity his freshman year at
Methodist. Stinson, a native of Fairborn, Ohio, will be starting at first
base but will also see some pitching
action. He will be called upon if left-
handed power is needed on the
mound. Junior Kyle Stephenson is
also making a comeback this year.
Stephenson, a native of Benson,
played two years ago for the Monarchs.
"The key to the pitching staff are
the freshmen. They anchor the staff
with four young talents that have
great potential," states Austin.
Methodist College admits students of any sex, race, color, national and ethnic origin or any religious denomination to all the privileges, programs and activities
generally made available to students of the College. Methodist College does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, national and ethnic origin or
religious denomination in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletics and all other College administered programs.
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